Perl

Add a Related File to an HTML Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddRelatedFile method, which adds the contents of a local file as a related MIME resource and returns the generated Content-ID. The returned value is the bare Content-ID — no angle brackets and no cid: prefix — so if it returns CID-123@example, the HTML reference is cid:CID-123@example. Because the Content-ID is generated by the call, this example adds the image first, then builds the HTML body in a StringBuilder — using a placeholder in the <img> tag that is replaced with the returned Content-ID — and passes the result to SetHtmlBody.

Background: To embed an image so it displays inside an HTML email (rather than being downloaded from a web server), you add it as a "related" part and reference it from the HTML with a cid: URL that matches the part's Content-ID. Since Chilkat assigns that ID when you add the file, the natural order is: add the related file, capture the returned ID, then build the <img src="cid:..."> reference from it. A StringBuilder makes assembling and updating the HTML convenient.

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use chilkat();

#  Demonstrates the AddRelatedFile method, which adds a local file as a related MIME
#  resource (such as an image displayed by an HTML body) and returns the generated
#  Content-ID.  The HTML references the item using cid:<Content-ID>.

$email = chilkat::CkEmail->new();
$email->put_Subject("Email with a related image");

#  Add the image file as a related item first.  The return value is the bare Content-ID
#  (no angle brackets and no "cid:" prefix).
$cid = $email->addRelatedFile("qa_data/images/logo.png");
if ($email->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $email->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Build the HTML body in a StringBuilder, using a placeholder where the image's
#  Content-ID will go.
$sbHtml = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbHtml->Append("<html><body><img src=\"cid:PLACEHOLDER_CID\"/></body></html>");

#  Replace the placeholder with the actual Content-ID returned by AddRelatedFile.
$numReplaced = $sbHtml->Replace("PLACEHOLDER_CID",$cid);

#  Set the HTML body from the StringBuilder result.
$email->SetHtmlBody($sbHtml->getAsString());

print "Related Content-ID = " . $cid . "\r\n";
print "NumRelatedItems = " . $email->get_NumRelatedItems() . "\r\n";

#  Note: The path "qa_data/images/logo.png" is a relative local filesystem path,
#  relative to the current working directory of the running application.